I
love list posts, especially ones that can be bookmarked and revisited
as a resource. I’ve always wanted to create something like that, which
is what led me to this article. I’ve been working on this article for a
couple months now, adding to it little by little. I’m proud to be able
to finally share it with you today.The contents of this article are not in any way revolutionary. Given enough time (this actually took much longer than I expected), you could easily compile a similar list. The
concept of making money online is so broad, however, that I wanted a
resource that captures most aspects of it. Take from it whatever you’d
like, or simply bookmark it for future reference. Here’s some food for thought: If you could find a way to make just $1 per day utilizing each of the following sources, you would earn over $52,000 per year!Side note: I could have easily used affiliate links for the majority of the items listed below, however I have decided to only
use affiliate links for services that I actually use, or ones that I’ve
seen highly recommended. The vast majority of these links are not affiliate links. I want this article to be a valuable resource, not a source of income for me.
[Update: In addition to this list, I have now published one titled "64+ Ways to Save Money Online" that I think you'll enjoy if you enjoyed this one.]

Getting Paid for Performing Simple Tasks

Cash Crate - This site is pretty cool because you can get paid for doing a variety of simple tasks online. Just for signing up, they give you a free dollar.
In addition to getting paid for simple tasks, there are also a lot of
great ways to get coupons and cash back for purchases you might
typically make. For example, you can sign up for a free trial of
Stamps.com, and Cash Crate gives you $9.60. Although each individual
task may be small, it adds up.

Getting Money Back for Regular Online Purchases You Make

It’s pretty common to shop online these days, so why shouldn’t you
use this as an opportunity to make even more money online? Here are
some places you can sign up to and you’ll be able to shop at many of
your favorite stores AND get cash back (in addition to whatever your
credit card gives you).

eBates - This one is my favorite. [Free $10 gift card after your first $25 purchase.]
I love this site because there are over 2,000 stores to choose from
including Walmart, Sears, Target, and many others. If you are doing any
online shopping, you should be using a site like this. It’s free money
that you wouldn’t otherwise get.

Mr. Rebates - Get $5 free just for signing up. This
is very similar to eBates, so it makes sense to sign up for both and
then when you go to shop at a store, just go to whichever one offers the
better cash back deal.

Revenue Sharing Article/Bookmarking Websites

I’m leading with this category because I believe article writing is one of the best
ways to get started making money online if you’re new to the game. It
costs nothing, and you can be up and running within a matter of minutes.
There is a learning curve (especially with respect to SEO and
researching keywords) and you’ll need to be patient, but in time, this
can be a significant source of passive income. Not sure of what to
write about? I’ve discussed that before.Note: These are not listed in any particular order.

InfoBarrel- This has been a continually increasing source of online passive income for me (ever since my original “challenge”). Last month, I earned $96 with InfoBarrel. If you want to see what others are earning, check out Mike Moyer’s January InfoBarrel earnings rankings.
The top person on there earned $1,586 from InfoBarrel last month.
InfoBarrel’s AdSense revenue share ranges from 75% to 90%, and also
includes Chitika and Amazon ads.

Squidoo-
Another revenue-sharing article site (great for building backlinks to
your niche sites). They share revenue, but the way they do it is a bit
complicated.

HubPages-
One of the more popular revenue-sharing article websites. I still
prefer InfoBarrel to HubPages due to its relative youth and growth
potential, but HubPages is also a great option, even just for
backlinking. The AdSense share here is 60%, and you can also monetize
with Kontera, eBay and Amazon.

Xomba-
High-ranking bookmarking site with 50% AdSense revenue share (links are
no-follow). They recently changed their rules to disallow links to
your own content (to improve the quality of the site), so use this at
your own risk.

Rate It All – Write reviews or rate products, and get 50% AdSense revenue share on your content there.

Peer-to-Peer Lending

Peer-to-peer lending is
an interesting concept, because it allows individuals to secure
relatively large loans without getting a bank involved. On its face, it
sounds like a risky proposition, but these P2P lending sites generally
have good measures in place to mitigate your risk (not to mention,
you’re compensated for this risk by earning very high interest rates).
In addition, you can usually invest in someone else’s loan for a small
amount (e.g. $25), which reduces the risk you take for any given loan.

Lending Club (U.S. Residents Only) - I’ve
been talking about this site ever since I started this blog, so there’s
no reason to stop now. Lending Club is an important part of my passive
income strategy. I discuss it in all of my income reports, so you can read those for more detail. As I’ve said several times, I believe this is my only true source of passive income.

Community Lend -
Like Lending Club, for Canada residents. I have not done business with
them, so do a bit of research first if you plan to invest here.

Books to Help You Make Money Online

These are some of the top books (according to Amazon.com) for making money online.

Social Media (Specifically, Twitter)

Social networking and social media is a great way to share your
content, gain followers, and in general, increase your presence online.
There are, however, ways to make money by sharing someone else’s
content with your followers via Twitter. I generally don’t consider
this to be a great way to make money online, but it can be lucrative for
those who have a big following. (Side note: I tried to see if there
was a way to sell Facebook “likes” or get paid to share content on
Facebook, and couldn’t find anything.)

Freelancing / Pay-Per-Project

You’ll recognize many of the sites below. However, when I usually write about them, I’m referring to them as means of outsourcing. In this case, I’m listing them as ways to make money online by being a provider of services.

Elance - I love Elance for outsourcing, and on the flip side, it could be a great way to make money online as a freelancer.

oDesk – Same as Elance, although many say that oDesk is the better choice for hiring programmers.

Demand Media
– A great site for freelance writers, however you must be approved
first (and I’ve heard they’re somewhat selective). Once you’re
accepted, however, you can earn up to $15+ per article, which can be
quite lucrative if you’re a fast writer.

Associated Content – Earn up-front payments for articles and also get paid based on views (I’m told it’s a very small amount).

Break Studios
– Freelance writing site similar to Demand Studios, though they pay
less (up to $8/article), however the article length requirements can be
shorter.

E-Mail Marketing

E-mail marketing is one of the oldest forms of making money online. As the old cliche goes, “the money is in the list.”
Within the MMO niche, e-mail marketing has become somewhat annoying,
but there are some people who still do it well. I like to think my
newsletter subscribers get value out of my e-mail, as I very rarely
promote anything. I think e-mail marketing is critical,
not just because it’s a way to drive traffic to things that make you
money, but because it’s another way to stay in touch with people who
follow your website, blog, or brand. I only use Aweber, but I thought
it would be helpful to include a list of alternatives. I’ve noted the
ones that are free.

MailChimp – Send up to 12,000 e-mails per month to a list of up to 2,000 subscribers for free.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising

There are some people who make a living with PPC ad campaigns, so
it’s definitely a viable way to make money online, either as a publisher
or advertiser. Be careful though – you can easily lose a lot of money
if you aren’t continually testing and optimizing ads.

Google AdSense
– Probably the most common way to monetize a website or blog. You can
easily add AdSense ads to your site and earn money for each click.
Click value depends on your niche and targeted keywords.

Google AdWords
– This is the flip side to AdSense. You can use Google AdWords to drive
traffic (which costs money of course) to a landing page or website
where you will ideally make more money off that traffic than what it
costs you per click.

Chitika
– Another way to monetize your website with ads, similar to AdSense.
Usually, Chitika ads don’t pay as well, but can still be effective.

Facebook Ads
– Similar concept to AdWords. Create ads that drive traffic to a
landing page, blog, or an affiliate offer (I’m not sure if you can still
use affiliate links with Facebook ads). Facebook ads are nice because
you can target very specific demographics and funnel that targeted
traffic to a product or service you’re selling.

7Search – An inexpensive alternative to AdWords. There’s obviously less traffic, but it’s a fraction of what it costs you on AdWords.

Speedy Ads – Another PPC alternative. Looks like a pretty cool site, though I’ve never used them.

Pay-Per-View (PPV) Advertising

Another way to drive traffic to your affiliate promotions and landing
pages. The benefit here is that they are usually less strict than PPC
sites (i.e. you can usually directly link to an affiliate offer). It’s a
different beast though, from what I’ve been told, so it’s best to do a
little bit of research before you spend money on PPV traffic.

Cost-Per-Action (CPA) Offer Sites

These are great for monetizing your blog/website, or using in
conjunction with PPC/PPV ads. In general, CPA offers allow you to be
paid for someone completing an action. For example, there may be an
offer that requires someone to input their e-mail address or zip code.
Upon that submission, you’re paid an amount, usually ranging between
$1-10. There are more lucrative offers that pay $20+, like filling out a
short form for a free credit report. It may require some creativity to
use CPA offers to monetize your website or PPC ad campaign, but there
are people who make a living doing this online.Note: Many of these sites are selective about who
they accept. They want to make sure you’re going to send legitimate
traffic to offers, and will often want to talk to you on the phone
before they allow you to begin making money with them. There’s a thread on Warrior Forum that gives you some good tips.

Offer Vault- Compare offers from many CPA networks (free sign up, but beware, they like to send e-mail frequently).

Answering Questions / Giving Advice

I don’t see this talked about too much within the MMO niche, but
there are several sites that allow you to make money by answering
people’s questions online (usually related to very specific topics).
For some of these sites, you need to sign up and be approved before you
can begin answering questions for money.

Fun Advice - Earn points for answering questions, which get converted to dollars.

Ether – This
is actually a pretty cool concept. Essentially, you’re selling your
advice via telephone (almost like a phone version of Just Answer). They
give you a free Ether phone number (which forwards to an actual phone),
you set your hourly (or by-the-minute) rate, and you can schedule times
that you’re available for calls. You can also sell digital content via
Ether.

Web Answers – Answer questions and earn a share of AdSense revenue, which is based on the quality of your answer and other factors.

Selling Products You Own

When we think of “making money online,” we often immediately think
about affiliate marketing or selling digital products. Sometimes, it’s
easy to forget one of the oldest forms of making money online…selling products you own!
Clear out your house, apartment, or bedroom. Instead of throwing
things away or letting them pile up and make a mess, get some money for
them.

Gazelle
- This is a great place to sell back your gadgets that you don’t use
anymore (like your old iPhone, laptop, etc.). I was able to sell back
my iPhone to them for $150 and put that money toward a new iPhone 5.
They even pay the shipping cost for you to ship the product to them.

Amazon – You can actually sell back or trade in items you own to Amazon and receive Amazon gift card credit.

Selling Products You Don’t Own

…Also known as affiliate marketing. This is perhaps the most common
or hottest way to make money online at the moment. You recommend a
product, using an affiliate link. Someone clicks through that link ,
purchases the product, and you get a commission. It’s a simple concept,
but sometimes difficult to execute.
One common way to do it is to create a niche site – a site generally
focused on one type of product or sub-market – and populate the site
with relevant articles, with affiliate links embedded. One of my
current challenges is to add $20,000 per year to my passive income portfolio by creating niche sites that focus on Amazon products. Here are some good sources for products to sell as an affiliate:

Selling Products You Designed, But Don’t Own!

In some cases, you may want to design your own products (we’re
talking simple things, like t-shirts, magnets, mugs, etc.), but you
don’t want to take on the cost of having inventory that you can’t sell.
The below options are great for this situation – for the most part,
it’s free to set up a virtual storefront, and you earn money when your
products sell (and if nothing sells, it costs you nothing). These are
generally great if you already have an established brand and want to
sell your branded gear.

Cafe Press – Easily design products like t-shirts, mugs, etc. and sell them from a virtual storefront through Cafe Press.

Taking Surveys

This isn’t really my cup of tea, but there are several sites that will pay you to take surveys or give your opinions. Important note: Don’t ever pay to sign up to a site that offers to pay you for surveys. Here are ones that, based on my limited research, are legitimate.

Writing Reviews

There are some good sites out there that will pay you to write
reviews on your blog for various products and services. I haven’t done
much of this, but I’m hoping to eventually incorporate it into my niche
sites. Some of them are picky about what blogs they accept/approve, so
you may have to wait until your blog is older and more established.

Stock Trading / Investing Online

If you’re willing to do a bit of research and take on the risk, you
can buy and sell stocks online. Some people make a good living trading
stocks on a daily basis, while others have lost significant amounts of
money doing it.

Selling Your Photos Online

Other Stuff

There were some things I couldn’t fit in any particular MMO category, so here they are:

SurfBounty
– I’m generally not a big fan of this, but others have had success with
it. This site allows you to get paid for reading e-mail, surfing the
internet, and participating in surveys. Some of these types of sites
are scammy, but I don’t believe this one is.

Career in online marketing – This one comes per the suggestion of Ian in the comments, and rather than rewrite what he said, I’ll simply quote him: “There
are two types of careers. The first one, where you have to work out of
an office, is not really making money purely online because it’s a job
that requires an office presence (although an absolutely amazing one and
one that may still make your list). However, another route is starting
your own SEM agency. If you start your own agency, you can make a
tremendous amount of money from the comfort of your own home if you work
hard and are really good.”

My Favorite “Make Money Online” Blogs

These are some of the blogs that I subscribe to in my RSS reader.
Not all of these blogs will consider themselves “make money online”
blogs, which I completely understand and appreciate. What I’m saying,
by listing them here, is that they’re great resources that will no doubt
help you make money online in one way or another.

My Favorite “Make Money Online” Forums

I don’t frequent these forums too often (and there’s often a lot of
garbage to sift through), but there are some gems of information here.
It’s usually a good place to check on reviews of various SEO software,
see what people think about different changes in the MMO world (like
when Google changes their ranking algorithm), and other miscellaneous
MMO/affiliate marketing topics.

Warrior Forum – My
favorite. Be careful, you can get sucked into some of the threads
here, and before you know it, you’ll find that you’ve just “wasted” 2
hours.

Digital Point – Not as good as Warrior Forum (in my opinion), but still worth visiting.

Black Hat World – I
certainly don’t recommend or practice black hat SEO tactics, but
occasionally there is some interesting information and discussion within
this forum.

What Am I Missing?

Hopefully something in this article will help you earn more online.
With that said, I’m sure there’s still a LOT out there that I’m
missing. Share it in the comments! If I hear some interesting ones
that I completely missed, I will probably come back and edit this
article to include them.I put a lot of work into this article, so I’d be forever grateful if you could retweet it, share it on Facebook, or Stumble it using the buttons on the left sidebar. Thanks so much!

The best ways to make money online free would include Squidoo, Amazon, eBay (in this instance without a product to your name), article writing and affiliate marketing.

There maybe ’no such thing as a free lunch’, but for our purposes we can always trade our time to avoid spending our money. If you don’t put something in, in this case time, your most precious asset, you stand no chance of taking anything out! Accept that now, or there is no point in reading this article any further. None will be covered comprehensively here, that comes later.

Squidoo is a free site that allows you to put together a simple web page. There is absolutely nothing to pay, at any time, unless you decide to buy something yourself. This happens all the time.

The same is true of eBay.

With either Amazon or eBay, when something sells, you will receive a commission.

Article writing has been around a lot longer than the internet and is one of the most powerful promotional tools you can possibly have. Anyone with reasonable English can do this.

Affiliate marketing is where you sign up for free to promote a product. The most popular and highest paying products are ebooks where you can earn up to 75% commissions.

There are "easier" ways than others, but all real ways to make money online require some time and effort to make them work. There is an up side to it though. So just keep that in mind as something to look forward to. Oh and by the way, it’s completely free too. I consider it a career because many people (including myself) make full time incomes online doing it, but it’s actually something that you can get started into as soon as you’re done reading this article. Most affiliate marketers choose to promote downloadable products. With commissions this high you can usually see money on your end between $30 and $150 per sale. So how do you make money online through becoming an affiliate marketer? Well I’m glad you asked!

One of the easiest ways to do this is through affiliate marketing or by promoting other people’s products. If money is really tight for you at the moment, finding a good affiliate program is an easy way to get started with no out of pocket expenses. With close to 10,000 products at clickbank. If you like dogs, promote a dog book. But, you don’t want to focus entirely on things that you like. This can be a physical problem like skin acne, kidney stones, or weight loss, or it can be a non-physical problem like a barking dog or bad credit. Once you have products or problems that you are interested in promoting, you can start to be creative and come up with ways to get your referral link seen online. com, linkedin, and others. Some article sites require you to have a domain name, so you can invest a nominal fee to get one, or just target article sites that don’t have that requirement. Some blogs can get thousands, or tens of thousands, of people per day. The best idea would be to visit blogs that have topics similar to the products you are promoting.

Well I guess the short answer is yes you can make money online free but there are a few problems with trying to do this. When people first start out trying to earn money online they normally give it up as they do not see any reward for their work. Let me just examine this a little closer in the areas where I have some expertise. I have tried this and it is not pleasant, 2 days of placing ads for a measly $50. You may be lucky enough to have a website with buying traffic but your still paying your server and domain costs so that isn’t exactly free. First ensure you blog is updated on a daily basis with quality content, then you need backlinks, I ll say that again you need backlinks. Again to do this free is going to take a lot of your time. So to sum it up yes you can make money online without spending a dime however you may also struggle making a dime.